Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
| Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You | ||||
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| Studio album by Kid 606 | ||||
| Released | 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–2003 | |||
| Length | 51:58 | |||
| Label | Ipecac | |||
| Producer | Miguel Depedro | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | (Negative) |
| BBC | (Negative) |
| CMJ | (Positive) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| PopMatters | (Positive) |
| Q |
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| Spin | B+ |
| Stylus | A− |
| Uncut | |
Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You is a 2003 studio album by American electronic musician Miguel Depedro under his alias of Kid 606. The album was released by Ipecac Records on compact disc and on vinyl by Tigerbeat6. The album was recorded between 1998 and 2003 and features guest vocalist Wayne Lonesome. To promote the album, the EP The Illness was released in July 2003 as well as a music video for "The Illness" made by Joel Trussell.
On its release, the album received both positive and negative reception. The more positive reviews referred to the album as the best Kid 606 album released to date while Allmusic, CMJ and Stylus Magazine referred to it as one of the best releases of 2003. Criticism came from Spin and The A.V. Club who had mixed feelings on how the album adapted the older style of electronic music.
The music on Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You was recorded between 1998 and 2003. The majority of the songs from the album were created by organizing the ideas for the song in Logic and then taken to Depedro's desktop where he ran separate outs of the MOTU 2408 and ran individual channels through external filters and delays. The album features vocals from Wayne Lonesome on the track "Buckle Up". Lonesome was introduced to Depedro by British musician Kevin Martin. Depedro stated that he "really liked the tracks The Bug did with Wayne Lonesome, but I don’t get along with Wayne and didn't like working with him."
Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You has a different sound than the previous Kid 606 albums such as the Mille Plateaux ambient style of P.S. I Love You and the mashup style of The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams.The A.V. Club described the album as a "working history of spastic club music, from rave-era hardcore to jungle to gabba" The majority of Kill Sound... was described by PopMatters as "chaotic mix of cartoon samples, glitched-out grooves, and sputtering synthesizers"Stylus Magazine described the album as having a "giddy sense of humour" and that "Depredo has always been a bit of a prankster when it comes to his music".
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